The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-07-28
GENERAL NEWS.

Doings Throughout the World and
the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest Tele-
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.
Pat Connolly, prisoner in the Helena
Jail, suicided with opium last week.
Mrs. Thurber has attached the scenery,
costumes, ETC., of the National opera
company.
There were but six lives lost by the
foundering of the steamer Marietta, of
Hoogly Point.
The Spanish government has decided
to abolish Cuban export duties on sugar,
molasses and spirits.
NJ. Laier, member of the French
chamber Of deputies, has challenged Ed
itor Cassagnac to fight duel
twenty-five deaths from cholera oc-
CURED in Catania, Italy, in ono day last
week. The people are panic-stricken.
James McNaught, of Seattle, W. T., is
to succeed Colonel Clough as general
counsel for the Northern Pacific railroad
The ship Firth, of Olna, has been lost
in cyclone in Java waters. The entire
crew, numbering twenty-eight, perished.
It has been decided to proclaim under
the crimes act all counties in Ireland ex-
cept Antrim, and to enforce the new law
with frmness.
A committee has been appointed to ex-
tend an invitation to President Cleve-
land to visit Minneapolis on his proposed
northwestern trip.
Secretary Whitney has appointed a
board of naval officers to take the
cruiser Atlantic out to sea and give her
battery thorough test.
The presidents sister, Miss Cleveland,
will take the vice principalship OF Fifth
avenue private school, in New York, at it's
opening in September.
Advices from Sicily say fugitives from
Cantania are spreading the cholera
throughout the island. Business is at
standstill everywhere.
A fire in the Chinese quarter of Los
Angeles, CAL, Sunday, destroyed the
dwellings, of 1000 Chinese, entailing
loss of $175,OOO.
The French senate has approved the
treaty of commerce between France and
Mexico, embracing the notifications de-
manded by the Mexican government.
The bill taxing VINE rooms $4,000 has
passed the lower house of the Georgia
legislature by the requisite majority. It
is thought the senate will pass it also.
A special from Albuquerque, N. NJ,
says two men we're killed and one badly
injured by the premature explosion of
blast at the rock quarries on the Magda-
lena branch.
An exploring expedition. headed by
Joseph Manson is about to start for Lake
Thad, Central Africa. Andrew Carnegie
supplies the bulk of the funds to defray
the expenses of the expdition.
Last Friday night, at Washington,
Ind, Peter Burkhardt, aged 70, wealthy
farmer, having become jealous OF his
young wife, deliberately shot her dead in
tho presence of their 4-year-old boy, and
then killed himself.
Shellabarger, the Nebraska man who
murdered his own daughter, was taken
from jail and lynched early Sunday morn
ing, after the militia had once dispersed
the mob and all probability of violence
had been dissipated.
The secretary of the navy has signed
an advertisement inviting proposals for
the construction of torpedo boats of the
most modern design, constructed of steel
of domestic manufacture, and to have the
highest attainable speed.
The treasury department has decided
that animals of high grade and value,
imported from Scotland or other distant |
countries for breeding purposes, are en-
titled to free entry, notwithstanding the
fact that they may be for sale.
Dick Hoover, tho negro rapist who out
ragged a negro woman near Fosterville,
Tenn, Friday evening, was surrounded
by body of negroes, last Sunday at IL
o'clock, two miles and half from Foster
vile, and riddled with bullets.